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A turntablist is a musician who conceives the scratching and mixing of records on a twin-deck turntable as an artistic and expressive medium. Turntablism is the process of creating music this way, by ...

A manipulation in which the pitch of a sound is altered. Transpose means to increase or decrease the pitch of a sound. If the pitch is increased, the sound becomes higher and if the pitch is decrease...

A manipulation in which the Duration of a sound is altered. Time stretching can be used to make sounds longer or shorter. Time-stretching can be done on its own using digital technology, or can be lin...

The colour or quality of a sound. It is used as a term to describe all of the properties of sounds that cannot be described using other terms (such as pitch, duration, etc.) Timbre is a result of the ...

This is ‘an in between art form’ that involves the sounds of the spoken voice and eventually other vocal utterances as the primary source material for composition. Some text-sound works are solely per...